NetBSD/acorn26

About NetBSD/acorn26

NetBSD/acorn26 is the port of NetBSD to ARMv2 and ARMv2a machines, primarily the Acorn Archimedes, A-series and R-series systems. These systems pre-date those supported by NetBSD/arm32 and use an earlier, incompatible version of the ARM architecture.

Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/acorn26 are available for the 2.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current.

NetBSD/acorn26 News

2005-12-23:   NetBSD 3.0 released

NetBSD 3.0 has been released with support for 57 architectures. More information is available in the 3.0 release announcement.

2005-11-02:   NetBSD 2.1 released

NetBSD 2.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.1 release announcement.

2004-12-09:   NetBSD 2.0 released

NetBSD 2.0 released with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement.

2004-03-01:   NetBSD 1.6.2 released

NetBSD 1.6.2 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.2 release announcement.

2003-10-15:   arm port Xscale optimizations

Steve Woodford announced that he has committed various Xscale micro-optimizations to the NetBSD/arm ports. Please see his message to the port-arm Mailing List for details.

2003-04-21:   NetBSD 1.6.1 released

NetBSD 1.6.1 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.1 release announcement.

2002-09-14:   NetBSD 1.6 released

NetBSD 1.6 released with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement.

2001-12-08:   New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2001-12-07 sources is now available in the NetBSD/arm26 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.6 was released on 2002-09-14)

2001-09-12:   Minimal Econet support

NetBSD-current now includes minimal support for Econet interfaces. At the moment, there are no protocols implemented on top of Econet, so its usefulness is rather limited. This will change.

2001-07-28:   New bootloader

Ben Harris has committed a new bootloader, with support for gzipped kernels, to NetBSD/arm26. See Ben's announcement in the port-arm26 mail archive for more details.

2001-05-31:   boot with local root

Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has gotten support for booting with root on a local disk.

2001-05-28:   DMA in HCCS SCSI driver

Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has committed support for the pseudo-DMA facilities of the HCCS SCSI podule. This gets speed up to 300 KB/s.

Archive of NetBSD/acorn26 news items

Supported System Models

Note that NetBSD/acorn26 requires at least 8 Mb of RAM. Systems with less memory than this will not currently work.

Supported Peripherals

On new machines: